Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Under the will of the Heavenly Monarch, the entire Tu Shan Central Courtyard Cultivation World began to be enveloped in a faint scarlet hue.

The Great Sun Longsword Metropolis dispatched over ninety thousand sword cultivators, who usually chose to visit at night, arriving outside the cave mansions of certain cultivators, knocking on doors politely and rigorously to inform them of certain matters.

As for why there are only over ninety thousand sword cultivators out of a hundred thousand from the Great Sun Longsword Metropolis?

It was because they had already completed internal purges, where death penalty sword cultivators faced life-and-death battles with other sword cultivators challenging them. Killing one allowed them a few hours of rest to recuperate their mana and Divine Sense.

Then, another sword cultivator would challenge the death penalty sword cultivator.

If no one dares to challenge, then multiple sword cultivators would gang up and subject the death penalty sword cultivator to execution according to Tushan Law.

—Such instances were almost nonexistent. In a rising and aspiring group of sword cultivators, those who feared battles could not climb to high positions or advance to the Nascent Soul Realm.

This cycle repeated until the death of the death penalty sword cultivator.

In deserts, seas, wilderness, and formations cutting off outside interference, the sword cultivators of the Great Sun Longsword Metropolis held life-and-death sword fights time after time. The blood of high-ranking sword cultivators kept flowing, their Life Flying Swords dim with Spiritual Light fell to the ground, and yet another life in the world was lost.

Until at last, all death penalty sword cultivators perished, their Sword Intent soaring to the skies.

Many sword cultivators had breakthroughs in their Sword Intent during this process, gaining much comprehension of swordsmanship, a grueling battle worth decades or even centuries of bitter cultivation, making it addictively fascinating.

Countless sword cultivators reluctantly ended and, driven by an intensified desire, dispersed in all directions to execute the will of Tusen Heavenly Monarch.

”Skull Spirit True Lord, two hundred and nine years ago, on September 18th, while serving as the City Lord of Yellow Sand Immortal City in West Desert, did you secretly kill millions of mortals, low-medium ranking cultivators, demon cultivators, and nineteen Golden Pill Monks, slaughtering an entire region, refining them into eighteen Demon Fire Skeleton magical treasures, and then disguised it as a black sand storm disaster, can you confirm these events?”

Mu Tiansnow watched with a smile as a short and chubby, extremely kind old man walked out from the formation of the cave mansion, an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

Her aura fluctuated, sealing her own cultivation base down to the Golden Pill Peak, and unless attacked by a sword-duel opponent, the seal would not be broken.

Even if she were to die in battle.

This was a secret technique developed by many Nascent Soul sword cultivators of the Great Sun Sword Sect over these three hundred years, and even Peak Nascent Soul Monks cannot violate the seals they set on themselves.

There was no choice.

After all external enemies of the Tu Shan Central Courtyard were gone, only criminal death penalty cultivators could be executed, each one of them is extremely precious, and their lives must be utilized to the fullest, without any waste.

Besides Mu Tiansnow, there were also over a thousand Great Sun Longsword Metropolis sword cultivators around, including seven Nascent Soul Late-Stage cultivators, twenty-one Early to Mid-Stage Nascent Soul cultivators, and the rest were juniors in the Golden Core and Foundation Building Periods.

They were here as reserve forces to prevent Skull Spirit True Lord from escaping and to replace Mu Tiansnow in continuing the sword duel should she die.

It’s important to note, there are only twenty-seven death penalty Nascent Soul Immortals, each extremely valuable and not to be wasted.

Of course, other Nascent Soul Immortals do not have the audacity to suppress their cultivation to the Golden Pill Peak; it’s courting death.

Other than the law enforcement sword cultivators of the Great Sun Longsword Metropolis, as Mu Tiansnow’s voice spread, many nearby Golden Core and Foundation Building Nascent Soul cultivators gathered here, watching angrily.

Many of them saw Skull Spirit True Lord as an honest elder, benevolent, with a kind heart beneath his chubby exterior, usually caring for the younger generation and extremely good to his peers, so many cultivators instinctively wanted to come forward in his defense.

However, upon seeing the sword cultivators of the Great Sun Longsword Metropolis, many took an involuntary step back, their pupils shrinking.

Great Sun Longsword Metropolis!

Over these hundreds of years, as they gleefully assumed the duties of enforcement monks, their reputation rapidly deteriorated, earning labels such as ’Imperial Court’s Hounds’, ’Lackeys’, ’Butchers’, widely detested and feared, making them easily the most despised existence in the Tu Shan Cultivation World.

If an ordinary cultivator claimed to have a sword cultivator friend, they would be shunned by their friends.

Throughout these centuries, whenever a collective movement by Great Sun Longsword Metropolis cultivators happened, it inevitably meant the death of guilty cultivators, always through brutal sword duels, without exception.

Skull Spirit True Lord stepped out pale-faced; although his complexion was originally pale, now it turned even paler, hinting at extreme fright.

Ice Snow Immortal Mu Tiansnow!

Peak Nascent Soul cultivator!

She had once fought battles far and wide alongside Tusen Heavenly Monarch, slain countless foes, and for centuries, she was arguably known as the strongest Immortal of the Tu Shan Central Court. How could he, a mere early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, compare to her?

”Is there some misunderstanding?”

”Ice Snow Immortal...”

Skull Spirit True Lord’s voice was hoarse, filled with misery, ”If you wish to take my life, speak it directly, why must you meticulously plot, framing and entrapment?”

”Outside the Yellow Sand Immortal City, the Black Sand Storm occurs every few decades, it sometimes deviates and hits populated areas, what does that have to do with me?”

”Great Sun Longsword Metropolis, bearing the expectations of the Heavenly Monarch, was it meant for you to casually frame good cultivators?”

”You sword cultivators grind your swords with blood, do you really think people are unaware?”

Skull Spirit True Lord spoke angrily.

His words quickly resonated with the cultivators around him, filling them with righteous indignation.

These hounds and lapdogs of Great Sun Longsword Metropolis, no one believes they would enforce the law impartially; they are too thirsty for life and blood, possessing strong vested interests.

To many cultivators, this appeared to be a conspiracy of sword cultivators against magic cultivators.

With the words of Skull Spirit True Lord, Mu Tiansnow slightly restrained her killing intent.

Regardless of how outsiders view or acknowledge it, they must clarify everything and demonstrate compliance with Tushan Law, otherwise disasters would ensue.

”Skull Spirit, you are quite eloquent.”

Mu Tiansnow revealed a charming smile: ”Your Life Demon Treasure, the eighteen Demon Fire Skeletons, where do all these skeletons and vital souls come from?”

”You said it was a fortunate encounter, obtained from an ancient cultivator’s cave mansion, then, would you mind going with me to the Implements Sect for testing, to see if these skeletons are recent or ancient?”

”I remember, the number of demon cultivator bodies you acquired isn’t quite sufficient, right?”

Tushan Central Court long ago ordered the destruction of many diabolic cultivation methods that use humans as raw materials, but there are always those who look for shortcuts, either developing new methods or applying righteous means in diabolic ways.

In the past, Tushan Central Court also seized many diabolic treasures, all of which are precious assets, not destroyed, and Skull Spirit True Lord exploited this legal loophole.

”Furthermore,”

Mu Tiansnow glanced at the hazy sun in the sky, pointing with her finger: ”This was your doing.”

A hazy light bloomed from her fingertip, portraying events from over two hundred years ago—a black-robed, masked person who had just advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage constantly altering the direction of the Black Sand Storm, ultimately harvesting the essence blood and vital souls of a million people recklessly within the storm.

”No!”

”This is fabricated!”

Skull Spirit True Lord’s face turned deathly pale.

His body trembled.

He couldn’t understand, it had been two hundred years, why no one could discover the truth about what happened then, still so detailed, as if witnessed firsthand.

”This, your words don’t count.”

Mu Tiansnow revealed a greedy smile, slowly drawing out a longsword ceaselessly flowing with fresh blood.

”Skull Spirit True Lord, you slaughtered a million living beings outside Yellow Sand Immortal City, Tushan Central Court Law Hall sentenced you to death, to be carried out immediately, the executioner, Mu Tiansnow.”

A Jade Slip sealed with the grand seal of the Law Hall and signed by an incarnation of Tushan Heavenly Monarch floated out, the text on the Jade Slip clearly visible to the surrounding people.

”This is unjust!”

”Merely some insignificant ants!”

Skull Spirit True Lord knew there was no room left to maneuver, bitterly laughed.

His expression turned ferocious as he tore off his previously compassionate disguise, burning his Essence Blood as he madly fled into the distance, striving to seize a slim chance of survival for himself.